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20 Yes, you who live in heaven, be happy!
    Be happy because God has punished Babylon!
    God's people and his apostles and his prophets, be happy!
    God has punished the city because of what she did to you.

21 Then a powerful angel picked up a very big, heavy stone. He threw it into the sea. He said,

    ‘God will throw you down, Babylon!
    You are a great city, but God will throw you down like this stone.
    Nobody will ever see you again!
22 Nobody will ever hear music in the city again.
    Nobody will sing there.
    Nobody will make music with harps, or with flutes, or with trumpets.
    There will never be workers who make things in the city.
    Nobody will ever hear the sound of people who make flour again.

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20 (A)Rejoice over her, O heaven,
    and you saints and (B)apostles and prophets,
for (C)God has given judgement for you against her!”

21 Then (D)a mighty angel (E)took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying,

“So will Babylon (F)the great city be thrown down with violence,
    and will be found no more;
22 and (G)the sound of harpists and musicians, of flute players and trumpeters,
    will be heard in you no more,
and a craftsman of any craft
    will be found in you no more,
and (H)the sound of the mill
    will be heard in you no more,

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20 “Rejoice over her, you heavens!(A)
    Rejoice, you people of God!
    Rejoice, apostles and prophets!
For God has judged her
    with the judgment she imposed on you.”(B)

The Finality of Babylon’s Doom

21 Then a mighty angel(C) picked up a boulder the size of a large millstone and threw it into the sea,(D) and said:

“With such violence
    the great city(E) of Babylon will be thrown down,
    never to be found again.
22 The music of harpists and musicians, pipers and trumpeters,
    will never be heard in you again.(F)
No worker of any trade
    will ever be found in you again.
The sound of a millstone
    will never be heard in you again.(G)

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